Module Information

Orbital provides a platform for students to gain hands-on industrial experience for computing technologies related to students’ own interests. Done in pairs of two, Orbital students propose, design, execute, implement and market their project to peers and faculty. Peer assessment and critique of others’ projects are key components of the courses’ deliverables.

~ NUSMods Module Information

This module is on a pass/fail basis.

Schedule

  • Flexible Schedule
  • Venue:
    • For most of the module, you can do the course online.
    • For the final presentation, you will have to go down to NUS to present your project.

There are 3 main events

  1. Liftoff (Start of the module)
  2. Mission Control
  3. Splashdown (End of the module)

Module Breakdown

  • Lift Off
  • Milestones 1, 2, 3
  • Splashdown
        
gantt
  title Orbital
  dateFormat MM-DD
  axisFormat %m-%d
    Section Liftoff
      Proposal: 05-11, 7d
    Section Milestone 1
      Ideation: 05-18, 15d
    Section Milestone 2
      Prototyping: 06-01, 28d
    Section Milestone 3
      Extensions: 06-29, 28d
    Section Splashdown
      Splashdown: 08-26, 7d

Pre-requisites

  • CS1010 or any of its variants OR CS1101S
  • Must not have completed CS2103T or any of its variants

Module Details

There are on concrete details on what you have to do for this module. We have the freedom to decide on what projects that we want to work on for 3 months.

I will definitely recommend everyone to take on more complicated projects on a tech stack that you want to learn. If the project is not sufficiently complicated, you will not be able to learn much from the project/not get accepted by the module.

During the project, we will have an advisor that will guide us through the project. If we need any technical help, we can approach them to ask for help as well as their opinions on the project.

Liftoff

For lift off, the main task was to submit a proposal for the project that you want to work on.

  1. You have to find a partner to work with.
  2. You have to submit a proposal for the project that you want to work on.
  3. For artemis teams, we have to also create a poster and video for the project.

The deadline for the Artemis teams is earlier at 14th May instead of 18th May.

Milestones

For each of the milestones, you have to submit a report for the milestone. The report includes the following:

  1. What you have done for the milestone
  2. Information on our project

For the last milestone, you have to submit a video for the project.

Ratings

Workload (~ Varies)

The workload for this module depends on the project that you are working on and may vary from person to person.

Organization

Similar to the workload, the organization of this module depends on the project that you are working on and may vary from person to person.

Learning (10/10)

As we are able to choose what we want to work on. It empowered me to learn the stuff that I wanted to learn for a long time. It really help me to learn something that I am interested to know more about.

Enjoyment (10/10)

I enjoyed taking this module a lot as I am able to program something that I am interested in. I have learnt a lot of concepts about design and programming that I have not learnt before in traditional university lessons.

Usefulness (~ Varies)

The usefulness of this module depends on the project that you are working on and may vary from person to person.

Overall

For anyone who wants to take this module. Please apply for the module in the semester before (Around March).

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